Book Signing with Thriller Author Alex Finlay

Celebrating Parents Weekend — A Twisty New Campus Thriller

What happens when Parents Weekend goes from awkward family dinners to a full-blown missing persons investigation? Find out when bestselling thriller author Alex Finlay comes to Four Seasons Books to celebrate the release of Parents Weekend — a razor-sharp, twisty new mystery perfect for fans of Riley Sager, Megan Miranda, and dark academia drama.

Set at a small, elite California college, Parents Weekend follows five college students who vanish during the biggest weekend of their freshman year — leaving their parents to unravel the dark secrets, tangled friendships, and family sins that might have led to their disappearance

This is the Big Little Lies meets Only Murders in the Building energy we LIVE FOR.​

Join us for an evening with Alex Finlay as we talk about true crime obsessions, campus scandals, and what makes family drama so deliciously terrifying.

Books will be available for purchase and signing — including Parents Weekend (out May 6, 2025) and Finlay’s previous thrillers.

Alex Finlay is a bestselling novelist who has been hailed as “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) having “earned a reputation for producing suspenseful, fast-paced thrillers” (Associated Press).
His novels include the 2021 breakout, Every Last Fear, the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller, The Night Shift, the 2023 LibraryReads Hall of Fame recipient, What Have We Done, and his latest release, the national bestseller, If Something Happens to Me.  His work has been an Indie Next pick, a LibraryReads selection, an Amazon Editor’s Best Thriller, as well as a Cosmopolitan, CNN, Newsweek, E!, BuzzFeed, Business Week, Goodreads, Parade,PopSugar, and Reader’s Digest best or most anticipated thrillers of the year. 
Hollywood has scooped up rights to his work for adaptation to the screen, including his upcoming release, Parents Weekend.
Finlay’s novels have been translated into twenty-five languages and are sold in countries around the world, including Denmark, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, to name a few.
Finlay, who writes under a pen name, is a magna cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School and a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer who has represented clients in more than 40 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He lives in D.C. and Virginia.

About Alex Finlay

About Parents Weekend

From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year's most anticipated thrillers.

In the glow of their children's exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids--five residents of Campisi Hall--never show up at dinner. At first, everyone thinks that they're just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise. Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella--The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them--come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within? Told through multiple points of view in past and present--and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift-- Parents Weekendexplores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days we all remember in the dorms when our friends become our family.

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Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay

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From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year's most anticipated thrillers.

In the glow of their children's exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids--five residents of Campisi Hall--never show up at dinner. At first, everyone thinks that they're just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise. Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella--The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them--come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within? Told through multiple points of view in past and present--and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift-- Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days we all remember in the dorms when our friends become our family.

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